". Is it wrong for the people of a sovereign state to have rules?"
  No, it's just wrong for a public utility to use legislation to eliminate competition (thereby lowering the quality of service) instead of raising their level and competing on the same field of play.

First off TFA is about as weak on details as it is in verb conjugation. And we just clip and paste without editing?

  What is proper insurance cover(age)? Are the limits too low, or not commercially based? Or not vetted properly?

  Quite honestly, I've never "Ubered" a substandard ride. I've had a few tardy ones I canceled, sans expense. Nothing compared to ANY taxi service. When I "Uber" a ride I get immaculately clean vehicles, professionally dressed drivers who own high end vehicles. Compared to a possible slacker, who's leased a 200k mile sled with vinyl seats and a plexiglas separator, talking on his bluetooth earpiece and bitching when I want to settle with a card and not cash.

  It would sure be nice to read an article with USEFUL UTILITY (not to mention an edited summary).

Definition: they've been using it for 5 years.

Reaching a "tech" that's not scripted on the first, second or third call is just as rare.

It will be interesting to see how the world sees creditability of a US issued "valid" warrant. There was a time when a stateside judicial order meant something. Probably before the time that habeas corpus had no exceptions, probably before the time that temporary exclusions to the bill of rights were waived.

  Kinda kills credibility, doesn't it?

And a company follows the letter of that law, and due to the
way the law was written, a company creates wealth for their shareholders against the INTENT of your law, they did not break the law! Write the law as you intent to enforce. Don't cry foul when you fail to write proper law, or fail to amend your law.

  And I'm sorry for this (not really).

  Fuck the French anyway..

Kermet was just a terminal emulator. Before FTP we used Zmodem.

N/T

Total abuse of power.

The cameras get traded for food...or worse.
   

The Crimea is significantly less costly.

Economic hitman.

Many countries, namely Colombia and Ecuador have significantly less intolerance than Central and North America. The dollar is strong, food is fresh and cheap and the current political situation there is stable and welcoming. Why Belize over Colombia or Ecuador?

The utility of news and is based on reputation. It does not matter any longer if reputation is based on the publisher or the author. Reputation can be easily researched by readers.

Translation, They have a website.